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I don't have a speech, to make you fall asleep, but I do have a climate change thought to share this morning:
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing for a long time. There are no accurate real-time CO2 measurements before 1958, but I would say man made CO2 from burning fossil fuels has been rising since the trough of the 1929 Recession, in 1932.
The U.S. economy, for one example, grew 40% (real GDP) in the four years from 1932 through 1935. Something few people know. And then there was another recession. The two recessions, combined, are usually called "The Great Depression".
So perhaps 1940 is a better year to start looking at rising CO2 levels and the global average temperature:
CO2 levels increased from 1940 to 1975:
The global average temperature decllned.
A few scientists predicted
a global cooling crisis in 1975.
Never happened.
Life went on.
CO2 levels increased after 1975:
The global average temperature increased.
A lot of scientists have been predicting
a global warming crisis since 1975.
Never happened.
Life went on.
Lesson learned:
Scientists are always predicting
a coming climate crisis,
no crisis shows up,
and life goes on.
Richard Greene
Bingham Farms, Michigan
which is still too cold,
so where is all the global warming
that we were promised?